Catalogue for the auction of
Cricket, Football, Golf & Sporting Memorabilia

‘Cricket in the Sun’. Learie Constantine. London 1946. First edition. 131pp. Original black cloth. Dustwrapper with wear to edges, otherwise good. Dedication in ink to half title page, ‘To John Arlott from Learie Constantine. For so much good he has been to Sport. May 1946’. Loosely inserted is a proof copy, stamped ‘Corrected’, of Arlott’s review of the book for the Times Literary Supplement of 23rd May 1946, also newspaper cuttings with obituaries, including ‘Two impressions of Learie Constantine’ written by Arlott and Neville Cardus of Constantine who died in 1971. Padwick 7448. Good/ very good condition. An excellent association copy.